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Philanthropy

Maria Fedorovna, the empress of Russia and wife of Czar Alexander III, was known for her philanthropy. She once saved a prisoner from exile in Siberia by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by Alexander. The czar had written: “Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia.” After Marias intervention, the note read: “Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.” The prisoner was eventually released.